different margins
Hi! In my document I need the first page in every chapter with different margins than the rest. I'm a novel LyX user and I'm not sure how to achieve this. I would appreciate any help. Thanks
Re: numbers of numbered lists
pol wrote:
I would expect size of numbers in numbered lists would change accordingly,
as the font size of all text has changed or the default font size has
changed.
That does not happen, with the default 'article' class, using lyx 1.4.5
If you change the font size in the Document -> Font menu, enumeration
labels seem to match. If you highlight an enumeration list and use the
font style dialog to change the size, then you're right, the labels
don't match. That's because LyX applies the font change to the text of
each item individually, rather than to the entire list.
Any suggestions?
If you are changing size for part of the document, rather than changing
the base font for the document, you can resolve this by making the
change in ERT rather than using the font style dialog. For instance
(using <> to denote an ERT box)
<{\Large >blah blah blah
1. whatever
2. whatever
blah blah <}>
Note the single brace in each ERT box; collectively, the limit the font
change size to what's between the two ERT boxes.
Any improvements in the next lyx releases, in this regard?
Same thing happens in 1.6.0rc1. If it's a significant annoyance, you
might want to file a bug report against it.
/Paul
numbers of numbered lists
I would expect size of numbers in numbered lists would change accordingly, as the font size of all text has changed or the default font size has changed. That does not happen, with the default 'article' class, using lyx 1.4.5 Any suggestions? Any improvements in the next lyx releases, in this regard? Thank you --- Pol
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote:
I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed.
If that's reproducible, it should probably be entered into bugzilla.
If I got it right it
worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted
the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go,
go directly to Go, do not collect £200!
When you reopened the doc, did LyX convert your ERT listings stuff to a
listings inset?? If so, that can probably be worked around. You could
load the listings package in the preamble and add a new environment (say
"mylistings") that simply begins/ends a listings environment with your
new language selected. Then use \begin{mylistings}...\end{mylistings}
in ERT. I doubt LyX would make any attempt to convert that.
/Paul
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
> Steve Burton wrote: >>> Steve Burton wrote: >>> Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. >>> I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly >>> helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar >>> problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes >>> any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, >>> then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. >>> >> >> >>> rh >>> >> >> Steve. >> >> yes, yes, yes and no! >> >> I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to >> be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... >> >> I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the >> language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I >> can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct >> pdf's. >> >> This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. >> >> However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain >> 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I >> did reconfigure and restart Lyx. >> >> Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this >> work? >> >> > Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available > languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good > decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if > you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd > be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available > languages should be made configurable. > rh rh, I probably could, though I'm using Windows at the moment and I only have an elderly Borland compiler installed. It's years since I programmed for Windows (Windows 95, in fact). I could perhaps do do it under FreeBSD but then I'm trying to use Lyx at work and a non-Windows version wouldn't fit there at all! I tried using ERT. If I got it wrong Lyx crashed. If I got it right it worked until I closed Lyx. When the document was re-opened Lyx spotted the listings stuff but didn't understand the language. Return to Go, go directly to Go, do not collect £200! I tried using an included TeX file but the layout was all wrong. I haven't written anything this weekend and this is rather a lot of trouble for a handful of configuration files. I'll revert to just using Lyx-Code. I might come back to this when I'm not in mid-document! Steve.
Re: preview PDF in a lyx file?
bigblop wrote: When I include an image in my lyx file it is previewed in the lyx file just fine when I use png or jpg images. But when I include a PDF it cannot be previewed: Error converting to loadable format Is there a fix for this? I'm pretty sure LyX passes the PDF file to ImageMagick to convert to PPM, and I'm pretty sure ImageMagick uses Ghostscript to do the conversion. Do you have a working copy of Ghostscript installed? As a test, open a command shell in a directory where you have a PDF image (call it fig.pdf), make sure the IM directory is on your command path, and run 'convert fig.pdf fig.ppm'. If you are set up correctly, you should get a file fig.ppm containing the correct image. /Paul
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
rgheck wrote: Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. I don't know if it'd work, but you might try defining your language as one that LyX already accepts, and see if you can get LyX to "pretend". rh
Re: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
Steve Burton wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Hi, I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to listings. This is what I have: Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS configurations and :- put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - same result. Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I can't trigger as much as an error message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes completely. I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. rh Steve. yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? Unfortunately, on looking at this now, it appears that the available languages have been hardcoded into the listings UI---not a good decision. If you can compile LyX yourself---I'm guessing you can, if you're using listings---it would be VERY easy to add a language, and I'd be happy even to provide the patch to do it. Better yet, the available languages should be made configurable. rh
Re[2]: I'm unable to add a language to the listing package
> Steve Burton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just spent an afternoon and evening failing to add a language to >> listings. This is what I have: >> >> Lyx 1.5.6 with MiKTeX 2.7 running on Windows XP. >> >> I have written a language definition to highlight Cisco IOS >> configurations and :- >> >> put it in a file lstlang0.sty in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX >> 2.7\tex\latex\listings, refreshed the FNDB and formats in MiKTeX and >> reconfigured Lyx. It doesn't appear in the language drop down. >> >> Added the definition to an existing .sty refreshed and reconfigured - >> same result. >> >> Moved the files in the listing directory above to somewhere else. >> Refreshed and reconfigured and Lyx put them back! Same result. >> >> I have read the listing documentation, searched the Lyx users archive >> and googled extensively but I'm no further forward. >> >> I realize that I've done wrong and that I'm probably stupid but I >> can't trigger as much as an error message. >> >> Any help or pointers would be appreciated before my mind goes >> completely. >> >> > I don't know anything about listings, so I probably won't be terribly > helpful. But the first thing I'd suggest, with this and similar > problems, is that you try to get it working just with LaTeX. That takes > any LyX issues out of the mix, at least. If it's not working with LaTeX, > then at least you know it's a configuration issue there. > rh >> Steve. >> yes, yes, yes and no! I hadn't tried this as I don't 'do' LaTeX and it was probably going to be too complicated. Still nothing ventured... I set up an editor to run pdflatex on .tex files and found that the language couldn't be loaded. I then corrected the .sty syntax and I can now write LaTeX files containing IOS listings and generate correct pdf's. This is a great step forward and I thank you for your advice. However, the language drop-down list in Lyx still doesn't contain 'Cisco' and using the 'language=' parameter doesn't work either. I did reconfigure and restart Lyx. Is there a Lyx specific configuration I need to change to make this work? thanks again, Steve.
preview PDF in a lyx file?
When I include an image in my lyx file it is previewed in the lyx file just fine when I use png or jpg images. But when I include a PDF it cannot be previewed: Error converting to loadable format Is there a fix for this? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/preview-PDF-in-a-lyx-file--tp683855p683855.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
